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TGCHE Chairman Prof V Balakista Reddy emphasised the importance of mandatory internships for law students while distributing certificates to students who completed a 21-day internship. The programme included sessions on legal education, communication skills, dispute resolution and international law

The Telangana State Bar Council elections, held after nearly eight years, saw an impressive turnout with 82 per cent of registered advocates casting their votes. Polling took place across the High Court, district, and subordinate courts, with 203 candidates contesting.

Bar Council of India’s evolving policy reveals more restrictions than reforms, diluting the intent of the 2023 foreign lawyer framework

The Bar Council of India has granted interim approval to Kerala’s proposal to reserve two supernumerary seats for transgender students in all law colleges. The move follows a Kerala High Court directive and marks a major step towards inclusive legal education

Lawyers across Odisha boycotted courts to protest the murder of senior advocate Pitabas Panda in Berhampur. The Bar Council of India has demanded a Special Investigation Team probe, while state authorities work to track the suspected professional killers.

Permission was given to commence the LLB course with an intake of 120 students (two sections) from the academic year 2025-26

Despite each Bar association having its own by-laws and being registered under Societies Registration Act, the Bar Council of Telangana imposed model bye-laws on all 110 bar associations in the State, the petitioners said

The move by the BCI comes in response to judicial observation regarding the need to monitor antecedents and backgrounds of law students

The college of Osmania University (OU) faces an uncertain future as it has yet to receive approval from the Bar Council of India (BCI) to offer a five-year law degree programme even as the Telangana Law Common Entrance Test (TG LAWCET) web counselling concluded on Friday.

The Telangana High Court on Friday directed the Telangana Council for Higher Education, The Convenor TG LAWCET and PGLCET 2024, Bar Council of India and Osmania University to treat transgender candidates as a separate category entitled to horizontal reservation in law course admissions.

Among seven that law colleges that have been barred from taking admissions, two colleges are in Andhra Pradesh.

Differentiating between the services rendered by a lawyer and a doctor, senior advocate Narendra Hooda, appearing for bar bodies and other individuals, told the SC bench that first and foremost, the duty of a lawyer is towards the court to assist it in a settlement of law and not his client

One college each for men and women established in Ranga Reddy and Hanamkonda districts offering five-year BBA LLB and BA LLB courses

The Bar Council of India said it "supports" the issue raised by petitioner Sudhanshu Pathak, a law student at the Delhi University

The amendment would help to regulate the legal profession through a single Act, the Advocates Act, 1961, according to statement of objects and reasons of the legislation

The Supreme Court asked the Bar Council of India to file an affidavit setting forth what action has been taken when bar associations have called for strike in the last one year

The PIL by Delhi University law student contended that CLAT exam "discriminates" and fails to provide a "level playing field" to students whose educational backgrounds are rooted in regional languages

Senior advocate Manan Kumar Mishra, appearing for the Bar Council of India, said the Rs 600 fee for enrolment was fixed in 1993 and costs have risen manifold since then

36 queer collectives from law schools across the country issued a statement condemning the BCI’s remarks that ask the apex court to let Parliament deal with the matter of same-sex marriage.   

Bar Council of India on Sunday expressed its concern on same sex marriage issue being heard in the Supreme Court